Scientists have long sought evidence to refute string theory, but a new test seeks to disprove key aspects with help from the ...

String theory is perhaps the most high-profile candidate for what physicists call a theory of everything – a single ...

Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra dimensions translate into sets of elementary particles—though not yet those of our universe.

Is string theory science? Physicists and cosmologists have been debating the question for the past decade. Now the community is looking to philosophy for help. Earlier this month, some of the ...

String theory is an attempt to unite the two pillars of 20th century physics — quantum mechanics and Albert Einstein's theory of relativity — with an overarching framework that can explain all ...

It may seem that, by calling it "string theory" and presenting it as a possible solution to a scientific question, we've already answered in the affirmative: yes, string theory is a scientific theory.